Sure, I was just making a list. Causality is it's own deal. Arguably, laws of nature, if they're real, transcend physics. But that is a totally differ...
That the physics of the world necessitates the existence of everything. Which means that particles, fields of force, spacetime, constants, and laws of...
What is the goal, then? The OP is asking how intentional content can be incorporated into a physicalist framework. That is traditionally part of the m...
The rules of the game of life plus it's initial starting position logically entail any patterns that emerge during that game. If you had a super compl...
No, it means that if you knew everything about physics, you would know everything that could be made up of physics, whether it's realized in our unive...
So in all possible worlds where the furniture of the world is exactly the same, do you always have consciousness, intentionality, abstract categories,...
It means exactly the same thing as saying that everything is made of XYZ. It's a statement of what ontologically exists, and by contrast, what does no...
What sense are you talking about it in? A peculiar one where you get to say that everything is physical, but don't have to back it up with ontological...
That everything we know is derived from sense-experience? That's still a matter of knowledge, not ontology. An empiricist might limit their ontology t...
Sure, but they need to be entailed by physics, even if there's a probability attached to it. QM doesn't posit entirely new things coming into existenc...
Empiricism is a matter of how we know, not what exists. So no, time isn't empirical, except in that we know about time by experiencing it. "Everything...
Ontology and empiricism are two different concerns. Anyway, I meant to edit my post to add: As such, it needs to show how everything is exclusively ph...
If we're trying to determine whether physicalism is true, we can ask whether it's logically possible for there to be a duplicate physical world lackin...
Physicalism is true iff everything is logically necessitated by physicis, such that a God-like being from the Big Bang could predict what sorts of thi...
Space is something, though. It's tied in with time. Gravity warps it. And virtual particles come in and out of existence at very small scales. Also, e...
Ontologically speaking, nothing has no place. But linguistically speaking, it's a very useful concept that's hard to do without. And this may be the c...
I would take issue with this one. A physically identical being lacking consciousness is not human. It's a p-zombie. But then we're arguing semantics a...
Yeah, but what exactly does it mean to supervene? According to Chalmers, physicalism require logical supervenience, which rules out strong emergentism...
Why would that be? Do you depend on language to perceive? To feel? To dream? Are all of life's intricacies and issues captured in language? What is th...
Practice Zen Buddhism, but even Zen Buddhists communicate with words, so ... Why do we want to be liberated from language? We're human beings, and lan...
Freedom is slavery. So is the recommendation that we change our language games in order to become more moral? Isn't that what politically correct spee...
You're right. Conservatives are real big on that. The goal is to defund Government so that business can take over. Because business interests are supe...
But why couldn't the stomach the alternative? What was so very bad about Clinton, or Obama before her? I don't see anything so terrible that Trump bec...
If you've ever watched a show or read a story with magic in it, you can. A magical spell would conceivably cause ordinary food not to nourish. This is...
No, it's not, because materialism has a mind/body problem until the day arrives that all of the mind can be understood in material terms. The p-zombie...
I thought Landru's campaign against realism was supposed to save us from a world or right wing memes? Wasn't realism responsible for slavery, oppressi...
What do see as the role of education? To get a job? Does poor Mary really need philosophy class to become a nurse? I'm expressing my general cynicism ...
Ironic that it broke out into a philosophical discussion? She did ask on a philosophy forum. That's the risk. Might actually provoke a discussion. Wit...
The reason it doesn't beg the question is because we have neuroscience, biology, chemistry and what not to understand the behavior living systems with...
A meat suit, since it's a philosophical zombie. I tend to think the argument is incoherent, because it poses problems for meaning. But in it's defense...
Jesus man, so taking a philosophy class has nothing to do with the reason humans engage in philosophical query. No wonder I'm so cynical about schooli...
Isn't that what the migrant workers are for? Get paid slave wages way below minimum requirements and no benefits? You have to ask yourself why no Repu...
What do you expect? They have 5 times as many people, and we found it in our economic interest to trade with them. Expect India to follow suit, and Af...
What greatness was destroyed? Last hope for what? Save America from what? Cheap Chinese goods? Evil climate scientists? Below minimum wage migrant lab...
But it doesn't. What you really mean is that if everyone with the same evidence and rational ability started off with the same premises, then they wou...
Quite a few people on this forum care about philosophy beyond it being useful for learning how to construct arguments. Take a logic class if that's th...
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